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V5.2017 Update 03.2 – Release Notes

Table of Contents New Features ............................................................................................................................................................ 2

Communication ......................................................................................................................................................... 2

Send New Message [IM053434] .......................................................................................................................... 2

Framework ................................................................................................................................................................ 3

Alert Installer Updated to One Click Installation ................................................................................................. 3

Reporting ................................................................................................................................................................... 4

Reporting New Data Items [IM050323, IM051261] ............................................................................................ 4

Resolved Issues ......................................................................................................................................................... 5

Administration ........................................................................................................................................................... 5

Analysis ...................................................................................................................................................................... 6

Assessment ................................................................................................................................................................ 7

Attendance ................................................................................................................................................................ 8

Behaviour .................................................................................................................................................................. 9

Census ..................................................................................................................................................................... 10

Communication ....................................................................................................................................................... 11

Cover ....................................................................................................................................................................... 12

Curriculum ............................................................................................................................................................... 13

Dashboard ............................................................................................................................................................... 14

Diary ........................................................................................................................................................................ 15

Dinner ...................................................................................................................................................................... 16

Exams ...................................................................................................................................................................... 17

Framework .............................................................................................................................................................. 18

MCAS (Parent) ......................................................................................................................................................... 19

Other ....................................................................................................................................................................... 20

Reporting ................................................................................................................................................................. 21

Setup ....................................................................................................................................................................... 23

Student Portal ......................................................................................................................................................... 24

Virtual School .......................................................................................................................................................... 25

V5.2017 Update 04 Release Notes 1

Introduction

This document contains an End User version of the Release Notes for the Bromcom MIS Software for Version 5. The

Release Notes contain details of the latest updates, fixes and new features that have been implemented in this

release. An enhancement is either an improvement we have added or a new feature. Some of these are user requested, but most are enhancements we make to improve the software. This document contains the Release Notes for V5.2017 Update 3.2 What is an Update? When an enhancement is requested or an issue is found, the details are sent to the Development Team. Once they have made the enhancement or fixed the issue an update is created. This update can contain one or many fixes, for one or many modules, it is then tested by the Testing team and released either to be included into the next Build, (if there is one imminent), or it is passed as an Update to be deployed by the Support Team who will contact you and arrange a mutually agreeable time to apply the Update. Each of the issues listed here has been fixed with the latest Update.

1. Server side Installers:

a. MIS 5.2017.3.2

2. Client side Installers:

a. Timetable V1.15.34.0

b. Behaviour Pathways V3.2.28.0

c. Alerts Application V5.2017.3.25098

V5.2017 Update 03.2 Release Notes 2

New Features

Communication

Send New Message [IM053434]

Communication > Send New Messages

New options have been added to the Dynamic Fields dropdown menu for the capitalisation of Him/Her, His/Her and

He/She.

Previously this would not always put the capitalisation in the correct place. Now instead of the system working this

out it will be done manually when sending a message or creating a message template.

When sending a New Message or Creating a New Template, simply select the correct

option from the Dynamic Fields Dropdown Menu.

NOTE: All previously created Templates will have to be amended with the new updated

upper and lower case options.


Framework

Alert Installer Updated to One Click Installation

Alerts

To update to the new Alerts installer the old version will have to be deleted and the machine being used restarted,

this machine will also have to have Microsoft .Net Framework v4.6.2 installed, (if you are not sure which version you

have please check with your IT department).

To install the new version Uninstall the current Alert software (in the same way you would remove any other

software) and restart the machine.

The new version can be found by clicking on the down arrow to the right of the user name in the top right hand

corner of the page and selecting Versions. This will open the Versions page where the installer will be listed in the

Download Client Installers section. Click on either the 32 bit or the 64 bit option and follow the install wizard, ending

with the one click Install option. [Clicking on the wrong option for your computer will give a message informing you

of this, if this happens just try again with the other version].

The latest Alert option will now be installed, this will be Version 5.2017.3.25098. If you already have the Alert

function you should have the instructions for the configuration setup. If you require help with this please contact the

Helpdesk.


Reporting

Reporting New Data Items [IM050323, IM051261]

Reporting

New Data Items for Language and English proficiency have been added to the Language Entity. These are Language

Code, English Proficiency Code and Language Filter.


Resolved Issues

Administration

Reference(s) Affected Area(s) Issue Description

IM053841 Routines > Manual Data Import > Basic details

Import

Manual data import for basic details (student)

was not assigning an admission number to newly

created students

IM053823 Routines > CTF Import The CTF Import was failing if the file contained

FSM records for the same student

IM053524 Community > Student Details > Student Selection

> Process Leaver

When processing a student leaver the page was

redirecting to the student selection page

IM053969 Community > Student Details Could not use the delete button in student

record

IM053918 Routines > Manual Data Import/Export The Nationality field was appearing when trying

to import student address details when it should

have been the country field.


Analysis


IM053467 Attendance Analysis The filters for this now display students with 0%

results


Assessment


IM053513 Templates > Tracking Templates The tracking template find window was not

defaulting to Active

IM054070 Routines > Centralised Export/Import Was giving a page error when using the Excel

option

IM053096 Templates > Assessment Sheet List The colours for columns in a tracking template

for data review formulas were not updating until

the sheet was saved

IM053486 Templates > Incomplete Marksheets Was listing completed Marksheets as incomplete

IM053566 Routines > Assessment Migration School reported that the migration of

Assessment Data had caused issues with the

formulae

IM054356

IM053539

Routines > Import Assessment Data The Import process was not importing the

Exceptions


Attendance


IM053317 Reports > Absentee List Report When set for fully absent for date only on

threshold not selected this was returning

students with less than the threshold for the

beginning of Spring/Summer Terms

IM054380 Attendance > Teacher Register & Amend

Attendance options

This was for a school using a local installation

and not the Cloud version of the MIS.

Attendance retrieval processes running on

the server for MCAS were slowing the system

down.


Behaviour

Reference(s) Affected Area(s) Issues Description

IM053959 Reports > Event Summary Report Was displaying the student names incorrectly

IM053939

IM053948

IM053961

IM053962

IM053963

Behaviour > Behaviour Entry

Behaviour > Detention Entry

Behaviour > Detention Review

If there was only one or zero detentions in the

system. The Behaviour Entry page was giving an

error

IM054007 Behaviour > Behaviour Entry > Select Negative

Event > Generate Detention

A popup was displayed with the message that

the student is timetabled in the selected period

and detention was not created even for Break or

After School

IM054068 Behaviour > Behaviour Entry > Generate

Detention

When logged in as a teacher who also has

administration rights the staff selection could

not be changed

IM054198 Reports > Behaviour >Analysis Exports > Select

Mail Merge Events by Date When run this was timing out giving an error

message

IM054113 Teacher Register The red D icon to show a detention was not

displaying on some of the teacher registers. This

was because the detention was set to be

scheduled in the teacher’s room. If the teacher

was not assigned a room the red D was not

displaying. This has now been changed to display

whether the teacher has a room or not.


Census


IM053282 Census The Maximum Funded Hours value for 4 year olds

has been changed back to return 25


Communication


IM053965 Reports > Email History Report Was displaying some HTML code


Cover


IM053884 Cover > Arrange Cover > Save/Publish Cover Was giving an error message on saving

IM053968 Cover > Arrange Cover > Event Type Exams Exam Rooms can now be published the same as

non exam rooms

IM054078

IM054033

Cover > Arrange Cover The room and Teacher tabs were displaying over

the data


Curriculum


IM054044 Routines > Apply Timetable Model Apply timetable model failed due to dates on

band-block relationship. Some of the block-band

relations ended on 31/08/17 and the new

academic year on 2017-08-27 to 2018-08-25.

therefore this failing on this process

IM054130 Pupil Premium Some students who were eligible for Pupil

Premium were not displaying in the Pupil

Premium Group but not in the (V) Pupil Premium

Group


Dashboard


IM053305 Announcements On the popup the colours of the text were not

contrasting very well making it difficult to read

IM053786 Diary > More > Parent Evening > Manage

Booking

Staff Legal names were being displayed instead

of Preferred names

IM054242 My Groups > Add Learning Resources Option to browse to select entries under a file

name were appearing as blank


Diary


IM053782 Diary > Equipment Booking Requests Equipment bookings with recurrence were

displaying incorrect information


Dinner


IM054058 Maintenance > Student Meal Definition Add/Edit

Available Charges

Was giving a null reference exception when

trying to update the Dinner charges. This was

happening when an EndDate was null in the

Database

IM053636

IM053572

Dinner > Dinner Registers > Select Students > OK

> Add Comment

The Comment was always appearing against the

first student on the register


Exams


IM053931 Reports > Seating Plan Report The default parameters had not been updated to

include the new options to Include Exam Time and

Include Special candidates key and Code

IM053932 Reports > Seating Plan Report Unselecting the show exam time was still showing

the time

IM053904 Reports . Candidate Timetables Report Exported reports saved to students records in bulk

were showing blank. This was happening when

exporting to multiple documents


Framework


IM052724 My Reports > Focus Selector The Focus Selector was not displaying individual

students for report selection

IM053960 Scheduled Reports Some scheduled reports were occasionally

displaying with the word hell on the end of the

student name.

IM054320 Scheduled Reports School reported scheduled reports were not

running for a user

IM053849 Scheduled Reports There was data missing from a school created

scheduled report


MCAS (Parent)


IM054251 Homepage Student Photos were not displaying


Other


IM048704 iPhone 7 and above Using a higher version iPhone caused the page to

zoom in when the font was less than16px. If this

happened while taking a register the zoom would

obscure the name of the student

IM049936 iPad 2 > Safari Browser Was not sending SMS text messages


Reporting


IM053599

IM053682

Reporting > Preview When previewing some reports they were giving

an error.

IM053269 Reporting: Assessment Results Domain post

migration

Using the new assessment module with lots of

results in the system was taking a long time to

load the results domain, preview and running the

actual report

IM053670 Reporting: Number/Currency The Number/Currency User Defined Field column

created in a report was giving an error for decimal

columns

IM053051 Reporting: General When the report filter was accessed whilst editing

a report the calendar selector was not working

IM053624 Reporting > List Report Changing the status of the label tick boxes was

causing an error

IM053835 Reporting: General Order of the columns in the Preview was

randomly changed after adding new columns to

Detail list box

IM053603 Reporting > Students > Student Groups The start date column was not displaying the

option to hide the time when doing a Web Merge

IM052673 Reporting: All Entities linked to Personal

Information > Names and Photos > Alternative

Preferred Name

Alternative preferred name column has been

renamed renamed to Legal Full Name Format and

the description changed to avoid confusion with

name format items in Setup module

IM053689

IM053854

Reporting: Scheduled Reports The reporting scheduled reports were not

working. This was happening in the following

scenarios

1. Staff A created a scheduled report and then

Staff B changed the scheduled job settings

2. Staff A created scheduled report and job and

later Staff B changed the report layout

IM053756

IM053449

Reporting: General Was giving an error when a static value data item

was used

IM053657 Reporting: Attendance Letters and Student

Attendance Domains

The Student attendance and student letters could

not be filtered by period display names and period

names

IM054119

IM054116

IM054123

Exports The way .CSV files are created for export has been

updated

IM053703 Reporting: Subjects/Groups Entities Start/End dates were not visible in the

Subjects/Groups entities

IM052926 Reporting: Adhoc Reports There was an issue with the formatting and width

of 3 customer created reports

IM054226 Reporting: Adhoc Reports School created reports were timing out and giving

an error

IM052969 Reporting: Adhoc Reports School created report with Full Address Label

Layout, but it was displaying on a single line

IM052800 Reporting: Web Merge On a school created Web Merge report the Grade

images were displaying too large

IM052979 Reporting: Adhoc Reports School created report was not displaying the total

columns and rows even though the tick box to

display them was ticked

IM054165 Reporting Adhoc Reports School created a Web Merge report that included


images, the images were displaying in the preview

but not in the final document

IM054487 Reporting Adhoc Reports Order of the columns was not displaying correctly

in the report


Setup


IM053868 System Security > Roles and Permissions Selecting the Diary option within the Teacher Role

was not refreshing the expandable list

IM053666

IM052947

IM053368

IM053551

IM054233

IM054260

System Security > Roles & Permissions There were issues when assigning Reporting

permissions


Student Portal


IM054305 Learning Resources The Add Resources option was displaying as a

blank box


Virtual School


IM053825 Virtual school synchronisation UCI now removed from the process

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